An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/zwinken

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2553510An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z — zwinkenJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

zwinken, zwinkern, verb, ‘to wink, twinkle,’ from Middle High German zwinken, zwingen, ‘to blink, twinkle’; also in Middle High German zwinzen (from *zwingezen) and zwinzern. Corresponding to Anglo-Saxon twinclian, English to twinkle.